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Historical population of Lesotho (Our World in Data). According to the 2016 census, Lesotho has a total population of 2,007,201. [1] Of the population, 34.17 percent lived in urban and 65.83 percent in rural areas. [1] The country's capital, Maseru, accounts for around half of the total urban population. The sex distribution is 982,133 male and ...
Lesotho, [a] formally the Kingdom of Lesotho, formerly known as Basutoland, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. As an enclave of South Africa , with which it shares a 1,106 km (687 mi) border, [ 8 ] it is the largest sovereign enclave in the world, and the only one outside of the Italian Peninsula .
This is a list of the current 54 African countries sorted by population, also sorted by normalized demographic projections from the most recently available census or demographic data. Africa is the fastest growing continent, currently increasing by 2.35% per year as of 2021. [ 1 ]
Demographics of Lesotho This page was last edited on 12 May 2022, at 23:10 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ...
The following is a list of cities in the Kingdom of Lesotho: ... Cities in Lesotho Rank City Population District Census 1986 Census 1996 Census 2016 1. Maseru: 98,017 ...
Leribè is a district of Lesotho. It has an area of 2,828 km 2 and a population in 2016 of approximately 337,500. Hlotse is the capital or camptown of the district. The district has one additional town, namely Maputsoe. In the west, Leribe borders on the Free State Province of South Africa.
As of 2016, the district had a population of 262,616, 13.32 per cent of the population of the country. The area of the district was 2,222, 7.32 per cent of the country. The population density was 113.00 persons per square kilometre, compared to 62 for the country. There were ten constituencies and nine community councils in the district. [2]
Christianity is the dominant religion in Lesotho, [2] with Protestantism and Catholicism being its main denominations. [3] [4] The 2022 United States Department of State report found Protestants slightly outnumbered Catholics. [2] Non-Christian religions represent only 1.5% of the population, and those of no religion 3.5%. [5]